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Can you tell I’m on an anti-Trump rant lately? Well I just thought I’d pass along a little more Trump-bashing. The new season of Trump’s “The Apprentice” was apparently a dive on NBC. He moved the show to L.A. from NY this season in hopes it would revitalize the ratings. The season premier averaged 9.1 million viewers compared with rival “Desperate Housewives” on ABC, which scooped up 18.6 million viewers.

The funniest piece of the whole story is that the ratings of his premier were behind even a REPEAT of the Fox cartoon “Family Guy”. Now who’s the fat slob?

Further proof that nobody is really buying into Trump’s huffing-and-puffing-king-of-the-world crap anymore. OVER IT!

Read the full article on Yahoo! news.

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I’d just like to say that I’m completely sick of hearing about this little war-of-words between Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell. I mean come on… he’s defending the Miss USA competition as if it’s some stellar institution of moral values and honor. It’s a bunch of girls in bikinis prancing around on stage so a bunch of fat guys can drink beer and pretend they care about how Miss Alabama wants to save the world. This isn’t a spelling bee here… if you have nice boobs then you win. But let’s face it, the whole argument between Rosie and Donald really has nothing to do with the Miss USA thing… they are just in a race to the bottom to see who can sling shit on the other one faster. Frankly, in my opinion, it’s like a car wreak… you can’t help but slow down and watch but you really don’t want to be part of it.

Get over it people… soldiers are dying in Iraq every day and the best we can do is sit on CNN and call each other fat slobs?

On a positive note… Donald Trump was voted the “Most Annoying Person of 2006″.

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Well first of all Merry Christmas to everyone! Just a quick update on the where, what and when.

I’m currently up in Lincoln, New Hampshire at Loon Mountain skiing with my family. I arrived here last Friday and am heading back to San Diego on Thursday. I rented a nice 5 bedroom condo across the street from the ski lodge for my family so we could all take off for the holidays and escape the usual chaos. So far it’s been a great trip. Renting the place was somewhat of a selfish move, I must admit, since now that they are all assembled in one place, I don’t have to drive around town visiting each one separately

Loon Mountain is a really nice skiing area in New Hampshire. West coast people wouldn’t quite think it was that spectacular since the highest elevation is really only about 1800 feet, but it’s fun none-the-less. There really isn’t any snow yet this year but it’s been cold enough for them to make snow at night so only about 5 or 6 of the trails are open. It still makes for a few decent runs.

I’ll post a few more pictures to my Flickr account (which I still need to renew). I’ll make a note here when I post them. Also, I FINALLY bought a new compact digital camera to replace the one that got stolen a year ago on Halloween. I ended up getting the new Nikon S7c. It actually has Wi-Fi built right into it so I can post and email pictures directly right from the camera… it’s really pretty cool and so far I’m impressed with how it works.

Here’s a little ski condo fireside fun… nothing like a fire, a little Sammy Adams and New England duck (whatever that means).

Stay tuned for more pictures and a few video captures.

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ME!! That’s what! History repeats itself. Here I am stuck overnight, AGAIN, in Manchester, NH sitting in a hotel room eating pizza. After waiting for almost 4 hours at the airport today, my flight back to San Diego was cancelled. The VERY last time I was in NH, I flew through Manchester and my flight was cancelled then as well, although last time it was because of a spring blizzard. I blogged about it then too (click here to read Snowbound) Today the reason was a combination of factors. First, the flight was delayed for a maintenance issue, which ended up being nothing. Then it was delayed due to air traffic congestion in Atlanta, which is where I was connecting through. THEN, the delay lasted so long that the flight crew went past their allowable flight time and couldn’t continue on. The next available flight was at 7 am so rather then have my mother drive the 2 hours roundtrip to the airport and back, I just decided to use the hotel voucher from the airline and stay local. So here I am wasting a perfectly good Friday night sitting in a hotel eating crappy pizza and watching CNN… THANKS Delta Airlines!

You would think in this day and age with all of our advanced technology and modern travel achievements that we would be better at this. Why on earth does it take 12+ hours to get across the country??… and that’s when everything goes exactly to schedule. It’s ridiculous. Oh yeah, sure, everyone will say that air travel is still the most efficient way to get places and that it’s better then taking the train or a covered wagon across mountain passes like they did a hundred years ago. Well you can stick it. I’m not asking for anything that isn’t already possible. We can’t get across the country faster and easier because nobody cares enough to make it happen. The airlines CHOOSE to route us through hub after hub in order to save money and consolidate expenses. I can’t find a non-stop flight these days to save my life. Sure, I fully understand the airlines are all bankrupt and need to fly their equipment at capacity and not waste resources but it just seems like $400 should get you a little more these days. In an era of instant communication and information at the speed of light, it just seems insane that it takes a full day (sometimes 2!) just to go 4-5 hours of actual flying time.

What if you spent $400 to reserve a nice hotel room and you showed up and they said, "sorry, we don’t have any rooms left… we thought we were going to but we don’t. You’ll have to wait until tomorrow at 7 AM to get your room." Why are we forced to tolerate this crappy service and inefficient system? It’s enough to make you wanna just say screw it and not go anywhere anymore.

Oh yeah, stay tuned… I fly to Puerto Vallarta on Monday.

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As Bob Dylan once sang, "For the times they are a-changin’". And so they are. A lot has been going on lately and lots of changes have taken place. I think often about writing things here in my blog and then other times I think, why bother… who the hell cares lol It makes me think of this new recently published book about blogging called, "No One Cares What You Had for Lunch" (hover over link for info). So when I think about blogging, I think, what the hell do I possibly have to write about?

Oh well, that being said… I’m on vacation right now in New Hampshire. Actually I’m in Maine since my mom and sister live there now and that’s who I’m staying with. I grew up in NH so my standard answer to everyone is always that I’m heading to NH. I’ve been here since Monday and I head back to San Diego tomorrow (Friday). It’s been almost two years since I visited the east coast, so it’s good to be back and clock in some time with the fam.

I’m on vacation because I’m between jobs… again. In just the last 3 months, I’ve switched jobs twice. Back in July I left the web design company I was working for to accept a programming position with the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine. Well, in spite of working in the same office as my super-duper-cool roommate Dylan, I realized that it wasn’t really a good fit for me and that I was more suited to the business & e-commerce web world. E-commerce, blogs and business solutions is all I’ve ever done. I guess I confused not liking client-based work with just having too much to do. With the new job I’ll have more control over my workload and my own destiny. So back I go to the original design company. They gave me an offer I couldn’t refuse It’s work that I’m familiar with and since I already worked there, I know the people and the clients. I start there on October 16th. So until then I’m putting my feet up and getting in a little relaxation time.

Next Monday the 9th I head off on my own to Puerto Vallarta for 4 days to REALLY relax and shut my brain off. Actually, I’m intentionally sequestering myself in hopes of doing some writing. I’ve had some story ideas that I want to turn into a screenplay and I figured it would be a good chance to get some peace and quiet and organize my thoughts. Of course what will probably happen is I’ll end up at Blue Chairs all day buying shots of tequila and dancing at Paco Paco’s all damn night

So times they are a-changin. I have a long list of personal projects and goals that I want to get back to. One of them is to keep this blog up-to-date more frequently. I have several other little web and business projects that all came to a screeching halt since I went to work for the University. Hopefully I’ll be able to get back to some of them. We’ll see… I’ll keep you posted.

Should I bring a camera to Mexico with me? hmmmm… some things are best left untold haha

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There just aren’t enough hours in the day to blog… June 21st was my last entry… I SUCK.

SO much has probably happened in the last 7 weeks that I wouldn’t even know where to begin writing.

That’s all I have to say about that. If you’re really bored with this blog, go check out my political blog at www.commonsensedemocracy.com… there are a ton of posts there… I have 12 monkeys working 12 hours a day writing posts on my behalf about George Bush and the state of our world.

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I don’t usually post stuff like this… I’m too shy (lol) but with all of the fanfare around the World Cup recently, I’ve found myself suddenly becoming a soccer fan… especially of the Spain and Brazil teams. How can you not appreciate this sport when you have players like Spain’s Forward Fernando Torres.

Here are a few more of the Brazil team…(at least I’ve been told they are members of the Brazil team).

There are a few more pictures below… GAME ON!

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